[filmscanners] RE: Digi, film and scanning in movies

["Frank Paris" <frankparis@comcast.net>]

22 megabytes is what you get from a raw scan (but 48 bit pixels), so 11
megabytes by the time you convert it to 24 bits. Compare this with 60
megabytes from my 4000 dpi scan of the film. Still, people were "saying"
you could produce great 8x10 inch prints from this G3. If so, I don't
know how to do it.

I took the G3 out on a hike with my Nikon F100 loaded with Kodak Portra
UC, which although touted as fine-grain for a 400 ASA film, is still
fairly grainy. I took the same series of pictures with the G3 as I did
with the Kodak. I tested the same prints from each camera out on "naive"
eyes. Interestingly, upon first sight most people thought the prints
from the G3 were sharper. But once I started talking about the prints,
people saw the superiority of the print from film. It was smoother to
the eye and when you looked realy close you could see more detail in the
print from film. Putting a 3X glass on it revealed the blockiness of the
print from the G3 and the continued presence of detail in the print from
film. Thin branches showed a two-tone in the G3 print, but looked
rounded and shaded in the film print. Initially, people mistook the
two-tone as being sharper in the G3 print. But it was really lack of
small detail and the presence of sharp edges along blocked up detail
instead of gradual shading exhibited by the print.

I was careful to get the colors and contrast the same in both prints,
and indeed from a viewing distance of 3 feet they looked almost
identical. When you stuck your eyes in them, however, the differences
were obvious. It would be unethical to pass off the G3 print as
professional quality. Not the film print.

Frank Paris
frankparis@comcast.net

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of Arthur Entlich
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 4:29 AM
> To: frankparis@comcast.net
> Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Digi, film and scanning in movies
>
>
> I guess one question is what is the file size coming from the
> G3, in raw format?  Although much of a scanner's data may
> consist of artifacts like grain, a 56-60 meg 8 bit file has
> to have some useful content...
>
> Art

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